Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell was born in Boston in 1917 into a patrician family that already counted poets among its members. He left Harvard to follow John Crowe Ransom to Kenyon and converted to Catholicism. In 1943 he refused to serve, judging that the war now aimed at destroying the German and Japanese peoples, and spent several months in prison. He married in turn Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick and Caroline Blackwood. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he taught at Boston University and at Harvard, and died in a New York taxi in 1977.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLife StudiesRobert Lowell · 1959Literature